#cling

Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#away #clings #condition #contract #long

It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#cling #come #cry #feed #horror

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#chains #cling #commonplace #desperately #escape

Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling. ↗

— Yann Martel

#cling #faith #fanatics #go #let go

My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling. ↗

— John McCarthy

#attending #energy #hobby #meetings #more

Cycling is based so much on form, on aesthetics, on class - the way you carry yourself on the bike, the sort of technique you have. ↗

— David Millar

#bike #carry #class #cycling #form

I think cycling has always had a tradition of being a bit dapper, especially back in the day. ↗

— David Millar

#back #being #bit #cycling #day

In fact cycling has always been 'saved' by judicial investigations and not by the anti-doping controls we put in place. That's the harsh truth. We have relied on them to clean the sport up. ↗

— David Millar

#been #clean #controls #cycling #fact

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over. ↗

— Henry Miller

#crime #his #lives #over #prisoner

Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#balancing #cling #competing #disturbed #economy